Typographical distributing machine



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D. S. KENNEDY TYPOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTING IACHINE Filed Sept. 24, 1923 My NTOR 1 ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

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DAVID S. KENNEDY, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNQR TO MERGENTHALER LIND- TYPE COMYPANY, A CGRI GRA'IION 015 NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

Application filed September 24, 1923. Serial No. 664,369.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVIE) S. KENNEDY, r. citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographical Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines of the general organization represented in U. S. Letters Patent to O. Mergenthaler, No. 436,- 532, wherein circulating matrices are released from a channeled magazine in the order in which they are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a mold, the mold filled with molten metal to form a slug or linotype against the matrices which produce the type characters thereon, and the matrices thereafter distributed according to character and returned through a channeled magazine entrance to the magazine from which they started.

In these machines, the magazine entrance is usually provided with a series of partitions which divide it into matrix channels and which are formed at their lower ends with bent-over flanges arranged to guide the matrices by their projecting ears as they pass to the magazine (see the Butts Patent'No. 1,1993%). In some instances, as when the entrance channels are extremely wide, the matrix guiding flanges, instead of being formed directly on the partitions, are located on leaf sections attached thereto (see my prior Patent No. 1,367,606). Heretofore, the entrance partitions have been left free at their lower ends so that they and the attached flanges may be readily adjusted to guide the matrices properly into the appropriate magazine channels. As a result, it frequently happens that the partitions and flanges become displaced from their original position of adjustment and cause a piling up of the matrices in the entrance channels, giving rise to the well known objections incident thereto.

The present invention is intended primarily to obviate the foregoing difficulties and contemplates the provision of means for anchoring the partitions at their lower ends against lateral displacement, so that the required adjustment of the parts may be readily determined and always maintained. lhe invention also includes other improvements which will best be understood from the detailed descriptionto follow.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the upper part of a linotype equipped with my impr ovements Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view showing the aligned relation of the entrance partitions to the magazine channels;

Fig. 3 is a detail end view of the entrance taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4C is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the1 entrance partitions in modified form; an

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing the partitions indicated in Fig. 4.

The magazine A, wherein the matrices X are stored, is of the regular trapezoidal shape and is provided on the inner faces of its top and bottom plates with series of ribs a presenting sets of'opposing grooves a which converge from the upper to the lower ends thereof and provide channels wherein the projecting ears X of the matrices engage. As shown in Fig. 2, the ribs (1 are tapered or beveled at their upper ends so as to flare or widen the mouths of the intervening channels a and thus facilitate the engagement therein of the projecting ears of the matrices. Actual practice has shown that the best results are obtained when the flared portions of the channels are about one-quarter inch wide, so that the beveling of the ribs herein has been carried out to seiure this width throughout all the channe s.

After the casting operation, the matrices X are delivered to and carried along the distributor bar B which drops them into the appropriate channels of the magazine entrance D leading to the respective magazine channels a. Unlike those of the magazine A, the matrix channels of the entrance D are constituted by a series of partitions (Z which guide the matrices by their side faces rather than by their projecting ears.

As before stated, the present invention is directed to means for anchoring the entrance partitions at their lower ends against lateral displacement. In the preferred embodiment illustrated, such means merely consist of ears d formed on the lower ends of the partitions d and seated in corresponding notches (Z cut in the lower side plate of the entrance at the delivery end thereof. In this way, the lower ends of the entrance partitions, which have heretofore been free and subject to lateral displacement, are permanently located and anchored in place for proper cooperation with the corresponding magazine channels.

In the present instance the partitions (Z are provided at their lower ends with latertongues (Z which are preferably produced bybending out portions ot the plates, as best shown in Fig. 2. The degree of inclination of the tongues (Z will vary according to the width of the entrance channels and may as regulated simply by bending out the tongues to a greater or less extent, as required. As

a result of this arrangement, the affected entrance channels are contracted in width in advance of the guiding flanges d to such extent that, while the larger matrices may pass freely therethrough, the thinner ones will be prevented from falling over so far as not to present their projecting ears to the guiding action of the flanges, this being brought about, of course, by the tongues cl which guide the matrices by their side faces until their ears become engaged by the flan es. In Fi s. 4- and 5 somewhat the same effect is produced by setting the plates (Z themselves at an inclination to the partitions (Z. This latter arrangement is like that presented in my prior Patent No. 1,367,606, except that spacing blocks (Z of varying thicknesses are interposed between the plates and the partitions to locate the former at the required inclination. as well as to space the guiding flanges (Z at proper distances from the opposing partitions. This method of spacing, which may be carried out with great accuracy, is rendered possible largely by reason of the factthat the partitions are anchored at their lower ends and thus serve as fixed reference points. Heretofore, when the aartitions have been left free at their lower ends for lateral adjustment, it was also necessary to leave the attached plates free at their lower ends so that they and their flanges might be adjusted laterally to accord with the position of the partitions.

However, it may be noted that the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 8 is preferred to that shown in Figs. l to 5, and particularly when employed in connection with a magazine having converging matrix channels, for the reason that the matrices in passing from the entrance to the magazine may more readily adjust themselves to the varying angles of the magazine channels. Furthermore, in the first mentioned construction, the location of the flanges d is determined by that of the partitions cl and is not dependent upon the accurate setting of the tongues cl", which latter are free or disconnected from the flanges.

In the accompanying drawings, the foregoing in'iprovements have been shown merely in preferred form and by way of example, and as applied to a machine of the class stated, but obviously many modifications and alterations therein and in their mode of application may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is to be understood, therefore, that the invention is not limited to any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. In a typographical machine, the comhination of a distributor, a magazine formed with a series of matrix channels, an intermediate magazine entrance for conducting matrices from the distributor to the magazine and provided with a series of parti tions dividing it into matrix channels, and means whereby said partitions are anchored at their lower ends against lateral displacement.

2. In or for a typographical machine, a n'iagazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels and having means whereby the partitions are anchored at their lower ends against lateral displacement.

3. In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels, the said partitions being formed at their lower ends with projecting ears, and one of the side plates of said entrance having a series of notches wherein said ears engage.

4. In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series o? partitions dividing it into matrix channcis, the said partitions having laterally pr jecting flanges to guide the matrices by their ears, and means for anchoring the partitions at their lower ends against lateral displacement.

In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels, separate plates fastened to said partitions and formed with laterally projecting flanges to guide the matrices by their projecting ears, and means whereby said partitions are anchored at their lower ends against lateral displacement.

6. In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels, and plates fastened to said partitions at their lower ends, the said plates being formed with flanges to guide the matrices by their projecting ears and with laterally inclined tongues arranged in advance of said flanges and disconnected therefrom.

7. In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels, the said partitions provided at their lower ends with flanges to guide the matrices by their projecting ears and with laterally inclined tongues arranged in advance of said flanges and disconnected therefrom.

8. In or for a typographical machine, a magazine entrance provided with a series of partitions dividing it into matrix channels, means for anchoring the partitions at their lower ends against lateral displacement and plates fastened to said partitions at their lower ends, the said plates being formed with flanges to guide the martices by their projecting ears and with laterally inclined tongues arranged in advance of said flanges.

In testimony whereof, I have affixed my signature hereto.

DAVID S. KENNEDY. 

